Walker v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the harmless error statute \puts a limitation on the powers of this court to reverse the judgment of the trial court-a limitation which we must consider on every application for an appeal and on the hearing of every case submitted to our judgment\
• holding that the harmless error statute “puts a limitation on the powers of this court to reverse the judgment of the trial court—a limitation which we must consider on every application for an appeal and on the hearing of every case submitted to our judgment”
• construing the predecessor harmless-error statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

31 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Swann (ORDER)
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2015-08-28· cited 390×
• Tynes v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-10-17· cited 130×
• Kirby v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2007-12-11· cited 102×
• Raymond Thomas Council v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-09-04· cited 77×
• Kirk T. Milam v. Sheila J. Milam
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-11-17· cited 64×
• Andrews v. Creacey
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-08-03· cited 59×
• Ray v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-02-16· cited 47×
• Sullivan v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1931-11-12· cited 46×
• Charity v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1997-03-04· cited 28×
• Waylon Allen Cox v. Commonwealth of Virginia
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2015-12-01· cited 24×
• Isaac v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2011-05-10· cited 18×
• Elliott v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1939-02-20· cited 18×
• First & Merchants National Bank v. Bank of Waverly
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-06-08· cited 17×
• Glenn v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2006-08-15· cited 11×
• Lockard v. Whitenack
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1928-09-20· cited 11×
• Davis v. Peyton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1971-01-18· cited 9×
• C. C. (Dock) Bradley v. W. Frank Smyth, Jr., Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1958-04-25· cited 7×
• Murden v. Wilbert
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1949-04-25· cited 7×
• Cudjoe v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1996-09-24· cited 6×
• State v. Arrington
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1963-06-11· cited 6×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Patterson v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-06-12· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Springer
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1924-01-29· cited 3×
• Commonwealth v. Cheney
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1871-10-15· cited 2×